Exploratory Practice in Language Education: How Teachers Teach and Learn

Abstract

This chapter locates Exploratory Practice (EP) in the fields of language teaching and teacher learning. It considers the traditions of language teaching, from method to post-method, which have come to shape programmes in teacher education and development. Then, it discusses the ways EP, as an approach to practice, and as a form of practitioner research, can develop teachers’ pedagogic strategies through working with students to understand classrooms, and to transform the social space of the classroom.

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